Ireland
• 1966
Biography
Born in Newtownards, Northern Ireland in 1966, Ian McAllister studied Fine Art at the University of Ulster. His first solo exhibition was held at Newtownards Arts Centre while still a student.
“My work is most often described as representational painting. I accept the description as I do not know of any other kind of painting; but I am not interested in realism per se. I seek to represent the appearance of an object simply because it is the only way to realise its singular nature. I am drawn to those subjects in which I perceive a deep poeticism, visually available, in what I regard as their “personality” in the circumstance.”
- Ian McAllister
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“My work is most often described as representational painting. I accept the description as I do not know of any other kind of painting; but I am not interested in realism per se. I seek to represent the appearance of an object simply because it is the only way to realise its singular nature. I am drawn to those subjects in which I perceive a deep poeticism, visually available, in what I regard as their “personality” in the circumstance.”
- Ian McAllister
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